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RAZOR
Unique ID: YORYM-AED81E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy leaf shaped razor of the Middle or Late Bronze Age, dating to c. 1500 BC - 800 BC. The razor is near complete, retaining the leaf-shape blade and a narrow, rectangular tang; at the edge of which it is broken. The edges of the blade are chipped and corroded away, leaving an irregular, jagged edge to both sides of the blade.
The metal has a well developed dark green patina, abraded on all surfaces. It has a prominent bend laterally across the blade, at approximately the mid-point.
Length: 81.5mm, width (at blade): 22.2mm, width (at tang): 6.5mm, thickness: 1.5mm, weight: 8.5g.
For other examples recorded by the PAS, see SWYOR-A48EE1 and NCL-71EF23.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Exactly 1500 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 81.5 mm
Width: 22.2 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 8.5 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: YMT : E06306
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Ryedale (District)
Parish or ward: Kirkbymoorside (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE7185
Four figure Latitude: 54.25575779
Four figure longitude: -0.91167063
1:25K map: SE7185
1:10K map: SE78NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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